Port installation without root access
Alexander Leidinger
Alexander at Leidinger.net
Tue Feb 14 04:11:59 PST 2006
Robert Backhaus <robbak at gmail.com> wrote:
> It does make sense to install ports into, say, ~/local . I can see
> three things that you need: Wrtie access to the distfiles directory,
DISTDIR=/a/dir/with/write/access/for/downloads
> (if you need to fetch), PREFIX set, and MAKEOBJDIR set to somewhere
You need to set WKRDIRPREFIX, not MAKEOBJDIR.
> spacious and writeable.
You also need to change PKG_DBDIR, and in case you install perl modules you
need to set PERL5LIB too.
Additionally INSTALL_AS_USER needs to be defined in make.conf or on the
command line.
> My limited experience is that this works, at least for the trivial
> ports for which user installation makes sense. Unless - Do ports
> recognise libraries/dependencies installed to /usr/local if PREFIX is
> altered?
Yes, they do.
But you will get into trouble when you try to install autoconf as an user. It
hardcodes the path to gm4 to /usr/local/bin, so this will not work out of the
box ATM. Another problem is that any dependency to autoconf259 will be
absolute to LOCALBASE. So if it is installed in a different prefix, it will
always try to build it.
The next problem are LIB_DEPENDS. You need a hacked ldconfig, the base system
one doesn't like non-root owned directories (there's another problem with
ldconfig, it tries to write to a place where an ordinary user has no write
access).
Bye,
Alexander.
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